Thursday, August 11, 2005

Is the majority really the minority

The writer in me is irked by all of the news stories published today about whites in Texas dropping below 50% of the population. I'm not irritated by the fact that whites are less than 50% of the population, but by the inaccurate wording of these stories. The headline of almost all of these stories has some sort of play on "majority becomes minority". No, no, no, no! If anything, whites are now a plurality of the population. They still out number each individual race, so by saying that whites are a minority in Texas, they are not conveying the true nature of the statistics. Whites in Texas are only a minority if non-whites are some sort of culturally or ethnically cohesive block, which they are not. A minority cannot make up the largest percentage of a population. Grrrr!

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